Gulf of Maine / Scituate Harbor - Extratropical Domain

Shelf Hypoxia

ChesROMSLong & Hood

UMCES

Estuarine Hypoxia

InundationCyber

Infrastructure

IOOS COASTAL OCEAN MODELING TESTBED(http://testbed.ioos.us)

U.S. IOOS Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Modeling Testbed

Coastal Inundation

Rick Leuttich, UNC-CH

FY2011 Accomplishments:

Reduced model run time, hypoxia data sharing, salinity distribution

findings, single term hypoxia results, unstructured grid sharing,

evaluation tools

FY2012 Goal: Operational & Sustainable US IOOS Modeling Testbed

• Serves coastal ocean & Great Lakes ecosystems • Run by a non-Federal consortium

• Supported by other Federal agencies• Anchored at NOAA-NCEP

• Less about models than process• Focus is on stable infrastructure

(testing environment, tools, standard obs) and transition to operations

Gulf & Atlantic Coast

Shelf Hypoxia

John Harding, USMKatja Fennel, UD

Gulf of Mexico

Estuarine Hypoxia

Carl Friedrichs, VIMSMarjy Friedrichs, VIMS

Chesapeake Bay

Cyber Infrastructure Eoin Howlett, ASA

Testbed Advisory

Rich Signell, USGS

Evaluation Group

1. Develop skill metrics and assess models in three different regions and dynamical regimes

2. Build a common infrastructure for access, analysis and visualization of all ocean model data produced by the Federal Backbone and the IOOS Regions

3. Transition models, tools, toolkits and other capabilities to federal operational facilities

4. Build stronger relationships between academia and operational centers through collaboration (improve R2O and O2R)

Original Testbed Goals

Looking Ahead

• Teams are finalizing products for consideration or transferring models, tools and toolkits to federal operational centers

• Cyber infrastructure team will continue developing tools to advance data repository and search features as well as comparison tools for data and models

• Management team is building framework for sustainability to include:– Defining and gathering broad agreement to structure and

CONOPS of long term Testbed– Ensuring funding support for future Testbed study areas

BACKUP SLIDES

• Additional Information about the Testbed goals and priorities

• Individual team updates provided for background, but these will be included in the IOOS update as well.

Improving Forecasts of Coastal Environmental Processes

• Factors: Open boundary conditions, met and river forcing conditions, physics vs. parameterizations, data assimilation approach, amount of data assimilated, numerics, vertical and horizontal resolution, model coupling.

• “Which model is better?” is often not the right question. What factors in the simulation resulted in a better solution? How much better? At what cost?

• Improving cyberinfrastructure leads to greater access by more people, and leads to faster improvements

The Pathway from Research to Operations and Applications

Actively manage these interfaces, through community

modeling partnerships

Research and Development

Academia, IOOS Regional Associations, Research components of NOAA & other Fed Agencies

Private Sector

Evaluation and Testing,

Development, Transition to Operations

OperationsValue Added

Product Development

• Development of common Testbed infrastructure

• Data Archiving

• Model development/ Enhancement

• HPC Time• Skill Analysis

Surge, Waves and Inundation Team Results

Gulf of Maine / Scituate Harbor - Extratropical Domain

• Improving Collaboration

• Improving Data

• Model Development 

• Supporting Operations

Shelf Hypoxia Team Results

NOAA CSDL planned coastal physical model implementations (nGOM shelf domain above currently planned for 2nd Qtr FY 12 initial NGOFS coastal ocean forecast operational capability)

• Transitioning information to federal agencies

• Model Comparison

• Conducting sensitivity experiments

• New, single term hypoxia model

Estuarine Hypoxia Results

CH3DCerco & Wang

USACE

ChesROMSLong & Hood

UMCES

UMCES-ROMSLi & LiUMCES

CBOFS (ROMS)Lanerolle & Xu

NOAA

EFDCShenVIMS

Five Hydrodynamic Models Configured for the Chesapeake

Bay

• Interactive Model and Observation Explorer: browse model results, view model grid data, side by side comparisons, and MUCH MORE

• Unstructured Grid Support: Time series extraction completed for FVCOM, SELFE, ELCIRC, ADCIRC.

• Matlab Toolbox: standardized data transformations, new methods for comparing data (including unit conversion). Coordination with OOI-CI

• Matlab as a Web Service: Matlab processes - no desktop license required.

• Skill Assessment Tools: Measure the degree of correlation between model prediction and observations

• Collaborative Web Site: public/private access to portal, content organization with internal/external tools.

Cyber Infrastructure Team Results